What are SSL certificates and Https?
If you have an SSL certificate installed on your website, you create a secure encrypted connection between the visitor's browser and the web server. This means that it becomes much more difficult for hackers to steal data that goes between the browser and the server, which can be personal data, email addresses and logins.
Https is an acronym for Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure, and in the old protocol http you can remove the word secure.
Therefore, you must have an SSL certificate on your website
82% of the visitors closes the website if the browser says it is unsafe
Secure connection for visitors
Search optimization. Google ranks websites with SSL higher among search results.
The browsers Chrome, Firefox, etc. have started to warn about websites that lack SSL certificates. You do not want your visitors to be greeted by the text "The connection is not secure", it simply does not give much confidence in the company's website.
![](https://palmberg.io/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/ssl-anslutningen-inte-saker.jpg)
How to check if the website has SSL
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Otherwise, you can test yourself by entering https:// followed by the address of your website. If a padlock appears next to it, you can often click on it and the text "Connection secure" appears. Then you have a working SSL certificate, like the picture below, good!
![](https://palmberg.io/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/ssl-saker-hemsida.jpg)
It is also important that there is an automatic redirect that sends visitors from http to https. So that visitors cannot accidentally surf around your website without SSL.
We always make sure that all customers who buy hosting by PALMBERG.io have a working SSL certificate on their websites.